Child s chair



(No Model.) I

A. B. STEVENS. Childs Chair.

'No. 230,671. Patented Aug. 3,1880.

N. PETERS, PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. DV 0.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ASHER B. STEVENS, OF 'STAPLETON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THOMPSON, PERLEY, AND WAITE, ()F BALDWINSVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

CHILDS CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,671, dated August 3, 1880.

Application filed April 5, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom ct may concern:

Be it known that I, ASHER B. STEVENS, of Stapleton, county of Richmond, State of New York, have invented an Improvement in 5 Childrens Chairs, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to childrens chairs,

. and has for its object to so construct the chair, as herein described, as to permit it to be'used as a high chair, a low carriage, or a rocker.

This chair is intended as an improvement on that represented in United States Patent No. 214,479, to which reference may be had.

1 In the said patent the short legs next the seat were pivoted to the seat, and the rod connecting the upper end of the pivoted legs at the opposite sides of the chair were locked only when the seat was in its most elevated position.

In this my present invention I have attached the short legs to the scat rigidly, and have connected the lower ends of said legs at each side'the seat with curved braces, which at times serve as parts of the rockers of the chair, the other parts of the rockers being the inner edges of the pivoted roller-carryin g legs.

In that patent the transverse rod engaged by the locking device was carried directly by 0 the upper ends of the legs, the said rod joining the said legs.

In this my present improvement the legs just below their upper ends are pivoted to the brace and are not joined together above that point, as in the patent, but have connected with them, below their fulcrum, the lower end of links joined at their upper ends to a sliderod adapted who locked by a locking device (shown as a'notched or shouldered bar) at such 0 position below the seat as to enable the chair to be used either as a high chair or low carriage or a rocking-chair.

Figure 1 represents, in full lines, a side view of my improved chair adapted for use 5 as a high chair, the dotted lines showing the legs partially expanded to lower the seat and convert the high chair into a carriage or rolling chair. Fig. 2 is a side view, partially in section, showing the legs in yet another position to form a rocking-chair; Fig. 3, a rear elevation of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4, a detail, representing one of the arms of the locking de- V166.

The seat a, its arms, back, foot-board I), and short seat-legs c d are all as in the patent referred to, except that the seat-legs are rigidly connected with the seat rather than pivoted thereto.

The lower ends of the seat-legs c d are joined by braces 0 convexed at their lower '60 edges to serve as parts of the rockers.

The front legs, 6, and back legs, f, each provided with wheels or rollers g h, are pivated at 2 3 to the braces near the seat-legs.

Depending from the seat at each side. are slotted guides i, that receive the slide-rod 70, at the ends of which, outside the guides, are loosely connected the two links I m, they, in turn, being connected, as shown, loosely with the front and back legs at 4 5, below their fulcra.

At the inner sides of the guides are located the arms a, notched at 6 7, and provided at their upper ends with shoulders 8. These arms, constituting the chief part of the locking device, are pivoted at their lower ends upon the braces 0 are connected at their upper ends by a round,-p, and with the said round is attached a rod, r, having a spring, 8, which acts to keep the arms of the lockin g device forward in position to engage the sliderod andlock the legs in either of their adjusted positions, (shown in the drawings,) according as it is desired to have a high chair, carriage, or rocker.

I claim- In a childs chair, the seat, seat-legs, connecting-braces 0 having convex lower edges, the guide, the pivoted front and back legs, the links I m, connected with the legs below 9 their fulcra, and slide-bar controlled by the said guides,and a locking device to engage and hold the said slide-bar in'its difl'erent positions, the said parts being constructed and combined to operate substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' ASHER B. STEVENS.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, L. F. CONNOR. 

